Patricia Fletcher earned her Master of Arts in Voice and Speech from Antioch University and is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. She has worked as Dialect, Speech, Voice, and Audition Coach for actors On and Off-Broadway (GRACE, TRUE WEST, STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, etc.), in feature films (TALLADEGA NIGHTS, THE NARROWS, THE MINISTERS, A CRIME, MARGARET, THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, THE STONE MERCHANT, FRIDA, etc.), and television (LIFE ON MARS, THE BEDFORD DIARIES, UGLY BETTY, LAW AND ORDER, etc.), and has been a guest artist at colleges and universities, most recently at Dartmouth and Fordham.

The recently published 2nd edition of her textbook/CD entitled Classically Speaking, Dialects for Actors (June 2007), is fast becoming an industry standard. In addition to teaching Neutral American Speech and Dialects at the New School for Drama, she has also taught Dialects, Speech, Voice, and Accent Reduction for Rutgers University/Mason Gross School of the Arts (MFA and BFA Programs), the Actors Studio Drama School (MFA Program) where she was the resident dialect coach over many seasons. She has also taught at Brooklyn College (MFA Program), the William Esper Acting Studio, and the New Actors Workshop. Ms. Fletcher has appeared as an actress on Broadway (AS IS), Off Broadway (CSC and Circle Rep Companies), in regional theatre, film, and television.

In her 20 years of acting and teaching, Patricia has coached a wide range of performing artists including Harvey Keitel, Lynn Redgrave, Jean Reno, Drea De Matteo, Elias Koteas, Gina Gershon, Michael Esper, Aaron Sanford, Heather Tom, Mark Collier, Andrea Anders, Carman Lacivita, Oscar Isaac, Salome Jens, Gil Rogers, and business professionals at Court TV, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, IBM, among others. Abroad, she has served as a member of the American delegation to the International Theatre Institute 23rd World Congress in Marseilles (2000), to the Swedish Theatre Union Biennial in Våxjo (2001), and as panelist for the Dürrenmatt Theatre Festival in Singapore 2004, at the invitation of the Swiss Embassy. Patricia’s work was the subject of an article published in the May 2007 edition of MORE Magazine entitled: The Sound of Experience by freelance journalist Amanda Robb.